wired magazine. f-ing up articles about stuff since the 90's.

What? People actually BUILT THESE IRL?

>>33180 WIRED: Desperately tying to seem relevant since the dot com bubble collapsed. Also,

>One of the model towns on the layout is still called “Olympia” in honor of the budget beer that helped fuel the construction.

Olympia: like Coors, but with beer flavor.

I dont think they did too bad. Equating modeling to an old-fashioned sim game isnt really that far off, but it is a "tech" mag, and those people probably ride segways and have charge accounts at starbucks.

>>33203
oh u

>>33204
Do they even make Olympia anymore? I havent seen it on the shelves, but then again i usually go with pisswat-i mean bud light.

Somewhere i've an HO billboard reefer from the 70's in Olympia scheme.

>>33207

Sadly, Olympia Beer is a ghost of it's former self. It ended up getting lost in the mire between Miller and Pabst. And if it's still being brewed somewhere, it's not being brewed at the original Olympia Brewery in Tumwater, Washington; it was closed in 2003 after a stint making Miller's malt liquor products, and dismantled afterwards.

tl;dr - If you can find Olympia beer, rest assured that it ain't the same water; even as it says "It's the Water".

>>33224
lol

I hope that wasnt some kind of counter-raid by /s/, who's been filling their board up with trains? Hopefully noone from here...

/s/ thinks the raid is from /n/ but it's really from /b/.

>>33232
At least half the time /n/ is synonymous with /b/, anyway.

/n/ is really sucking balls these days. So many spambots, so much porn, not enough transportation. And it's also a training ground for combos. It's like the admins, mods, and janitors just don't give a fuck. I can put up with the bike threads, and to an extent people mistaking the board for /o/. But fuck-damn, it's all noise and no signal now.

Frickin' bastards, those /b/tards...

Just to put things in perspective (lucky old sod!) here's how such stories usually pan out:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5297333/Woman-killed-by-train-as-she-tried-to-save-her-dog.html

>>33230

He's a very lucky idiot, though. Murphy really had the guy by the balls.

:(

I cry for SD 45's...

>>33194

:[

Here's the one that survived

And here's another one, sitting in the forest.

The doors are open so you can kinda see how the 'doorlopkop' works.

>>33228

It looks like it's roaring its last war cries.

>>33228 This does make me dream of a mighty Koploper wobbling down some all-but-abandoned branchline somewhere.

>>33205
CSX is and always will be a mistake.

I took the certification test and had to waste 45 minutes of my life on "how good management ran the Conrail merger"

It was truly sickening/hilarious to see managers from all over the system brag about their fail role in the ensuing rape of Conrail.

>>33228

Frozen in time; naught but a canvas for the meandering youth of the Netherlands.

>>33234

Sounds like corporate culture run amok. When I worked for Greyhound, I never had to put up with "Laidlaw saved us from the faggotry of Dial Soap!" (when I worked, Laidlaw hadn't sold Greyhound off to Firstgroup plc). All I had to know was that some Swedish guy in Minnesota started the company by giving people rides to the iron mines outside of Hibbing.

I will say that Greyhound really went to shit when it was first sold to First and Stephen Gorman ran things. But I digress

Holy shit...epic renovation!

Definitely needs it. Last time i was in Minot i saw the run down condition. I wasnt even sure if it was an active connection, and they hadnt put an amshack up somewhere else. The whole thing looks like a gas station, not a a train station.

The exterior renovation is like night and day. Especially the roof.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minot_(Amtrak_station)

I find it interesting that this little station gets the most passenger traffic in all of the state of North Dakota; more than the obviously larger cities of Grand Forks and Fargo. I think it might be because of the very active bomber base outside of town.

>>33130

I guess there was a massive derailment and many scale model people lost their lives when the load of caustic Cheetos and Mountain Dew spilled into the township along the tracks?

>>33132
The LAWL-7 didn't have enough power to cause any damage, much less pull a damn train!

>>33139

It does now. Besides, it was all the road power I had on the front.

>>33132

Boxcars into Red Rock Canyon. Fucker stringlined around a curved uphill trestle. It was epic.

>>33094 I can't believe you walked all the way to Bowness...that's ridiculous. You must have had way too much time on your hands!

Bored teenagers are a menace to society. They should all have summer jobs or they do stupid things... like walk from Cochrane to Bowness. :-P

>>33167
or come to Canada and stringline all my boxcars >_<
I prefer walking west of Canmore.

>>33169

Heh, good times, good times...

(In actuality, he couldnt be more eager to be rid of me. Pic related, GCOR Rule 1.5.)

Please note, At the time I was begging him not to post this on here.

>>33184

That pic is classic, man!

>>33184
Yeah....I'm kind of surprised that you posted that just now...

>>33184

Hmmm... I spy The Emperor's New Mind.

Odd, it looks nothing like the DDPhallicX...

<There's another 6 feet of ditch under that snow.

I dont miss the white shit at all.

>>33145
You're very much alone with that opinion =)

>>33160 Second'd...probably because I have to travel 5+ hours to see it, even in the dead of January.

>>33161
I have to travel 3 hours to step in it, even in August.
God, I do love my location.

I actually like the winter more than the summer. Summer means heat, insects (esp. skeeters and spiders), and wildfire smoke.

>>33145
Driving in Chicago in winter sucks balls!!!

If you don't believe me, watch "Wrecked" on one of the many tv stations it is on.
BTW, its a great show showcasing Chicago driving as it really is, sucks.

>>33182

In Washington State and Oregon, when the snow comes down, the drivers fit into two categories: either the person who doesn't know what the fuck to do and panics, or the person that becomes too overconfident because they drive an SUV or a 4WD vehicle and overestimates things.

In Montana, winter driving can especially be suckage. But people here know how to handle themselves.

>>33183
Yes, but in Montana, you only really have one language.
But in Chicago, you learn to curse in Polish, Russian, Greek, Farsi and Spanish...

I was editing a photo, and I saw this one sitting unedited, and I thought of you, 1chan.